AUGUSTA, Ga. — As the errant shots began to pile up Sunday, Jordan Spieth swung his club angrily and spewed out his frustration for everyone to hear.

“Dang it, Jordan!” he muttered while strolling down a fairway at Augusta National Golf Club.

After three brilliant days, the kid showed his age. A major championship will have to wait.

“It stings right now,” Spieth said, showing the impatience of youth.

The Texan is only 20, surely with a long career ahead of him. He was trying to become the youngest major winner and seemed to have a green jacket in his grasp when he walked off the seventh green Sunday with a two-shot lead, having made one birdie by holing out from a bunker, another with one of those testy downhill putts that are so often the mark of a Masters champion.

But the golfer who won’t be old enough to drink alcohol for another three months couldn’t keep it going, playing the last 11 holes at 3-over par. Bubba Watson, his playing partner in the final group, pulled away for a three-stroke victory over Spieth and Jonas Blixt.

“I feel like I’m ready to win,” Spieth said. “Maybe I need just a little bit of course knowledge.”

He was playing the Masters for the first time, and experience is golden at Augusta National.

“I was 3-under through the first seven,” Spieth said, shaking his head after closing with an even-par 72 that was his worst score of the week. “If you had told me that when I woke up this morning, I would have thought it would be difficult for me not to win this golf tournament. I’m very pleased with the way I played (overall). The only thing I’m thinking about is getting back here next year. That is what’s on my mind.”

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